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Basile Njei, MD, PhD, MPH, FACHDM

Assistant Professor
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Appointments

Digestive Diseases
Primary

Additional Titles

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Co-Director, International Medicine Program, Digestive Diseases

Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Core, Yale Liver Center

Contact Info

basile.njei@yale.edu
203.932.5711 x5491

Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

New Haven, CT 06520

United States

About

Titles

Assistant Professor

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Co-Director, International Medicine Program, Digestive Diseases; Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Core, Yale Liver Center

Biography

Dr. Basile Njei is Assistant Professor of Medicine and a graduate of the Yale Ph.D. in Investigative Medicine and Harvard Global Clinical Scholars programs. He received his medical doctorate with honors from The University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon, and was awarded the prestigious British Chevening scholarship to pursue public health training at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. After earning a Master’s in Public Health, he completed residency training at the University of Connecticut and a Gastroenterology Fellowship at Yale University. During his training, Dr. Njei received multiple honors, including the Howard Levine-MD Science Award, ACG Fellow-in-Training Award, AASLD Fellow Travel Award, AASLD Young Investigator Award, Dr. James Boyer Fellow Travel Award, and the Samuel Kushlan Award for Excellence in Research.

In 2017, Dr. Njei was appointed adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale. Over the next five years, he practiced as a gastroenterologist in underserved communities across Maryland, Delaware, and Ohio, where he performed thousands of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies and colonoscopies, particularly for minority and underserved populations. Dr. Njei has also collaborated with the U.S. Embassy in Cameroon and the Ministry of Public Health to promote medical education.

Currently, Dr. Njei is the Co-Director of the International Medicine Program within Yale’s Section of Digestive Diseases and serves as a gastroenterologist at the West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital in Connecticut. His research centers on applying artificial intelligence and genetics to enhance the diagnosis of chronic liver diseases.

Appointments

  • Digestive Diseases

    Assistant Professor
    Primary

Other Departments & Organizations

  • Digestive Diseases
  • Hamburg House Affiliates
  • Internal Medicine
  • Yale Institute for Global Health

Education & Training

Post-Doctoral Global Clinical Scholar
Harvard Medical School (2023)
PhD
Yale University, Investigative Medicine/Data Science (2022)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
VA Connecticut Healthcare System (2022)
Gastroenterology Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine (2017)
Resident Physician
University Of Connecticut School of Medicine (2014)
MPH
University of Edinburgh, Epidemiology/Biostatistics (2009)
MD
University of Yaounde I, Medicine (2008)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Basile Njei, MD, PhD, MPH, FACHDM's published research.

Publications

2024

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Fellow

    National AwardAmerican College of Health Data Management
  • honor

    ACG 2024 Presidential Poster

    National AwardAmerican College of Gastroenterology
  • honor

    2024 VA DEI Research Supplement Award

    National AwardUS Veterans Affairs Office of Research & Development
  • honor

    EASL-AASLD Masterclass

    International AwardEuropean Association for the Study of the Liver/American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
  • honor

    Early Career Investigator Abstract Award in Healthcare Disparities Research

    National AwardAASLD Foundation
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Get In Touch

Contacts

Email
Academic Office Number
Mailing Address

Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

New Haven, CT 06520

United States

Locations

  • 950 Campbell Avenue

    Academic Office

    VA Connecticut Healthcare

    Wing Building 35A, Fl 2, Rm 210

    West Haven, CT 06516

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